Re: D vs Rust

2016-01-29 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 29 January 2016 at 18:43:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/29/2016 7:39 AM, bearophile wrote: [...] Nice to see you back, bearophile! I don't why but I thought that Bearophile and Ketmar were the same person. Anyway, is good to see he's coming back. JohnCK.

Re: Vision for the first semester of 2016

2016-01-25 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 16:34:15 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: I guess you mean GUI not IDE? Yes GUI... my fault, thanks! JohnCK.

Re: Vision for the first semester of 2016

2016-01-25 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 06:39:54 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 03:21:51 UTC, Puming wrote: On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 02:37:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hot off the press! http://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2016H1 -- Andrei [snip] For tooling, I suggest a

Re: Vision 2016 H1

2016-01-25 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 16:02:09 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 15:45:09 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: That does not reflect the incredibly dull day-to-day army life. I don't think we should read *too* much into the words. Whether we call them collaborators

Re: Vision 2016 H1

2016-01-25 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 18:37:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 16:31:50 UTC, JohnCK wrote: ... And please don't waste your time answering this. So you are basically in favour of censorship? Which is an authoritarian mode of leadership. Thus you don't

Re: Pre-alpha D language online tour

2016-01-25 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 18:17:09 UTC, André wrote: ... http://dlang-tour.steinsoft.net ... Any kind of feedback is highly appreciated, of course. This is very neat and I think this is a thing this will be very good for newcomers. PS: On the index page "after page 1" there is a huge

Re: extern(C++, ns)

2016-01-20 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 16:38:19 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote: // a.d module a; extern(C++, ns) { void fooa(); void bar(); } // b.d module b; extern(C++, ns) { void foob(); } void bar(); // main.d import a, b; void main() { fooa(); // ok foob(); // ok

Re: [dlang.org] new forum design

2016-01-18 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 10:20:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: ... you can provide detailed suggestions in how things can be improved... So far so good for me. The only thing that's bothering me a bit is the light gray color used on the "Quoted text", I think it should be a little

Re: [dlang.org] new forum design

2016-01-18 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
And by the way, one more thing, after posting a comment the site refresh 3x, I don't remember the text, but something like: (sending the text, waiting/processing, text sent), the entire process here takes like 3 ~ 5 seconds. Why is that? can't we hide that information and save 2 refreshs?

Re: [dlang.org] new forum design

2016-01-18 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 15:11:49 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: I'm not sure what you're suggesting... Well, why it doesn't works like any other forum, where you post a message and after that sent back to the topic. Currently after posting a message the page refreshs 3 times, with 3

Re: [dlang.org] new forum design

2016-01-18 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 15:55:01 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: That's because this website is not really a forum, in reality it is a web newsreader (NNTP gateway). http://forum.dlang.org/help#about I know that, I just thought that those messages/refreshs could be handled in the

Re: [dlang.org] new forum design

2016-01-18 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 16:11:37 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Nothing changed in this regard since the last iteration. Alright and finally (Before you get tired) I was looking the new DLANG.org and it's very nice. The only small thing I saw is the: "Latest announcements" and "Active

Re: [dlang.org] new forum design - preview

2016-01-13 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 at 06:01:41 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: http://beta.forum.dlang.org/ https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/pull/51 I think that top bar where is written "Forum" with down arrow should be position = fixed in favor of good browsing. JohnCK.

Re: [dlang.org] getting the redesign wrapped up

2016-01-10 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 10 January 2016 at 21:18:46 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: I echo this, and would add a further point that you should have tested all sub-domains before uploading. Release archive is not looking well. http://downloads.dlang.org/ Wow. Man I don't want to be too harsh, but that was

Re: [dlang.org] getting the redesign wrapped up

2016-01-10 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
First of all, the site looks better than the old version. Congratulations and now the criticism: I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. But look the DMD's Image compared to GDC and LDC: http://i.imgur.com/TrnuxcB.jpg Really looks like a joke. I would say this seems more like 90's but I

Re: TIOBE Januar 2016 - D rose 2 positions

2016-01-08 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 10:40:14 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: D rose again from 23th to 21th! http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html The rating is now more than 1% same as many other languages in the ~15+ range. Explore the history here:

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-05 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 15:32:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 01/05/2016 10:15 AM, bachmeier wrote: There are some critical technical differences: - There is one person making the decision. Not technical. -- Andrei Indeed but on the other hand is impacting the technical stuff.

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-05 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 18:09:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Is the recent http://wiki.dlang.org/Contributing_to_dlang.org along the lines of what you need? What other sort of documentation would you find useful? I took a look at that link, and you know what would be (at least for

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-04 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 23:16:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: A few follow-up questions, all serious: Fair enough... but most of the points you're asking they already have been discussed all over the forums, and some in this topic, like those exposed by Adam. Like I said currently

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-04 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 23:16:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: A few follow-up questions, all serious: Sorry, I just forgot an important thing. Somewhere in the beginning of this topic, you had advised Adam to put his efforts into another thing, right? So imagine this with: D vs C++

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-02 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 December 2015 at 23:05:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: This huge friction has killed my desire to contribute to Phobos before and it looks like it is again. the difference is this time, I have my own fork so the community doesn't have to lose out. Please keep the good work.

Re: Simple request about web site

2015-12-31 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 22:10:14 UTC, Jason Jeffory wrote: kinda useless since the left column essentially is quickly accessed. I second that. So to go to the main page, you need to scroll down and use the links below... called: "D Home". And it's so weird, because you have a "Big

Re: Redesign of dlang.org

2015-12-21 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 05:14:34 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Worth noting that this design modifies the logo, which Walter vetoed during the previous redesign. I don't want to be harsh with Walter, but I think he should minding with language design. You know... look that all

Re: Redesign of dlang.org

2015-12-21 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 15:07:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 15:01:16 UTC, JohnCK wrote: Unfortunately it's buggy, like for example in 1024x768px it doesn't looks good: Yeah, the header wraps on my computer on 1280 too, but these are mild bugs that can be

Re: Redesign of dlang.org

2015-12-21 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 14:46:23 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 13:58:30 UTC, anonymous wrote: I know you wait for Walter's and Andrei's approval on this before investing more work. That's very reasonable. Luckily, I'm not so reasonable ;)

Re: Redesign of dlang.org

2015-12-20 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 23:20:31 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: ...But how will it fair showing the entire language or library reference list items? I think the "Library Reference" link would be there, but the "List of Items" NOT. It should have a different page for the list or it will be a

Re: Redesign of dlang.org

2015-12-19 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 December 2015 at 14:33:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: ... I'm making it available [3] now... [3] http://www.googledrive.com/host/0B7UtafxGD9vESlB3aFBxcjNPOXM Can we see this without sign in? JohnCK.

Re: Redesign of dlang.org

2015-12-19 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 December 2015 at 23:11:33 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I changed the permissions, does it work now? Now it's working! Well... it's clean, but of course needs more polishing, like taking out a few border colors for example, but another thing that I liked was the buttons on top.

Re: Error message improvement ideas

2015-12-19 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 18:55:29 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: ...It could also do: k.d(1):k.foo(int a, string b) ^^^++ k.d(2):k.foo(string b) ^^ I prefer this way than using colors. And by the way, this thread should

Re: Some feedback on the website.

2015-12-18 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 01:17:26 UTC, JohnCK wrote: On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 00:43:11 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: ... I find the online forum interface klunky and inefficient to use (though most would disagree), One thing that bothers me sometimes is the waste of space, as you can

Re: Some feedback on the website.

2015-12-17 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 23:30:46 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 20:08:32 UTC, Anon wrote: On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 20:04:44 UTC, jmh530 wrote: My feedback: add the ability to edit posts in the forum You can't edit email. Maybe I can answer your

Re: Some feedback on the website.

2015-12-17 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 00:43:11 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: ... I find the online forum interface klunky and inefficient to use (though most would disagree), One thing that bothers me sometimes is the waste of space, as you can see in this SS, there are 2 versions, the original with

Re: Some feedback on the website.

2015-12-16 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 20:54:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I'm not so sure... Like they say: "A father will never agree that his child is ugly!" :) John.

Re: Some feedback on the website.

2015-12-16 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:06:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/16/2015 03:59 PM, JohnCK wrote: On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 20:54:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I'm not so sure... Like they say: "A father will never agree that his child is ugly!" To me it seems he's

Re: Some feedback on the website.

2015-12-16 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:30:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: I don't think anybody is questioning the value of ddoc as a *documentation generator*. The issue here is whether it has the same value as a *website programming language*. Very different things. That I agree! JohnCK.

Re: Some feedback on the website.

2015-12-16 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:18:43 UTC, JohnCK wrote: On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:06:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/16/2015 03:59 PM, JohnCK wrote: On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 20:54:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I'm not so sure... Like they say: "A father

Re: Some feedback on the website.

2015-12-16 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 21:17:43 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 20:59:46 UTC, JohnCK wrote: On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 20:54:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I'm not so sure... Like they say: "A father will never agree that his child is ugly!" :)

Re: D is on his way to Top 20 in Tiobe

2015-12-12 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 12 December 2015 at 07:13:37 UTC, Ozan wrote: ... Where they group CSS, TeX, Matlab, XSlt and other similar together with C, Java and D. (!?) Yes, there is a lot of garbage, but you need to filter them too! :) Come on,... for a language with no big company behind, I would

Re: D is on his way to Top 20 in Tiobe

2015-12-11 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 12:00:41 UTC, Ozan wrote: the TIOBE Index for December 2015 lists D in rank 23. You know what: for a language that is about 14 years old I was expecting more by now. I think D maybe lost it momentum, because for what I've been seeing, C++ for example is

Re: D is on his way to Top 20 in Tiobe

2015-12-11 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 14:39:10 UTC, wobbles wrote: Don't believe everything you read on the internets! :) I don't but go tell this to every user. :) Matheus.

Re: D is on his way to Top 20 in Tiobe

2015-12-11 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 14:51:19 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: ... But the age thing is kinda misleading because D has gone through several major iterations and hasn't had a concerted marketing effort ... Well maybe, but you know, C# is about 15 years old and it's in fifth place. Yes, I

Re: D is on his way to Top 20 in Tiobe

2015-12-11 Thread JohnCK via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 15:29:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 15:05:34 UTC, JohnCK wrote: On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 14:39:10 UTC, wobbles wrote: Don't believe everything you read on the internets! :) I don't but go tell this to every user. :) I